Indicating mechanism



Jan. 26, 1937. MP T, GOEVTZ 2,068,669

INDICATING MECHANISM Filed Feb. l, 1935 y 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTORMUPUS 7.' GOETZ A'T-roR Y Jan. 26, 1937.. A M T, GOE'TZ y 2,068,669

INDICATING M ECHANISM Filed Feb. 1, 1955 2 snags-sheet g Y INVENTORM40/705 7 60672 ATTOR Y Patented Jan. 26, 1937 STA a; orion INDICATINGMECHANISM of Delaware Application February 1, 1935, Serial No. 4,434

12 Claims.

The present invention pertains to composing systems and apparatustherefor and more particularly to apparatus for preparing a control formfor the automatic control of composing and 5 casting machines.

The principal object of the invention is to provide, in an apparatus forthe preparation of forms for the automatic control of casting machines,an indicating device to apprise the operator of the i nature and styleof type being composed.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an indicatingmechanism to be used in connection with the preparation of perforatedtape Y for the control of linecasting machines utilizing l a pluralityof matrix magazines.

Most linecasting machines utilize matrices provided with two letters orcharacters. For example, there may be a roman letter k and an italicletter lc on the same matrix. In the as- 20 sembly elevator andthroughout the entire delivery mechanism there are two rails or tracksupon which the matrices rest and ride. Thus, for instance, if the lcmatrix assembles on the top rail, the italic k will be cast; if itassembles 25 on the bottom. rail, the roman k will be cast. Besidesitalics, the two-letter matrices are used to carry bold-face, smallcaps, and in some cases a second type face. The assembling elevator isprovided with a shiftable or displaceable upper so level supporting railwhich, by its presentment or withdrawal from the entrance of theassembling block, may be made to determine the position in which thereceived matrices shall thereafter be supported within the elevator. Theposition of each matrix, once it is determined by the condition of theshiftable rail, exists throughout the composing operation and until anassembled line of matrices is thereafter carried to the castingmechanism. The shiftable rail is known in the 40 art as the duplex rail.

To enlarge the scope of composition, linecasting machines are frequentlyprovided with two or more storage magazines and also with means forchoosing the magazine from which a matrix is to 45 be selected. Thestructure according to the present invention contemplates the provisionof an indicator to apprise the operator at all times during thepreparation of perforated control strips, not only, which of thecharacters of a twocharacter matrix is to be used, but also of theparticular magazine from which the matrix is to be chosen.

To achieve the above and other objects of the invention, the keylevercomb of the keyboard 35 perforator and counter according to copendingapplication Serial No. 613,706, iiled May 26, 1932 by H. L. Krum, whichis located on the front surface of the base of the perforator andimmediately behind the bank of key tops (Fig. l of said application) ismodified to accommodate an indicator, 5*; comprising a frame integralwith said comb and a series of slides, one or more having a window oraperture therein through which is exhibited the information printed onthe other slide, the slides being movable relatively to each other. Theem- 105: bodiments of the invention contemplate keyboard apparatus inwhich the keyboard includes keylevers arranged in a mannercharacteristic of typewriters which operate a. permutation selectormechanism contained in the housing thereof. The selector mechanism isset permutably by the operation of a keylever and acts to setcorrespondingly a series of punch interference members preparatory toproducing a perforated signal in the control strip. Certain keyleverswhich are involved in the operation of the indicator according to theinvention, act also to control the preparation of the control strip.According to the preferred embodiment of the invention, a leverarrangement is provided which is located in a housing beneath the keybank and is controlled by extensions on the upper and lower magazinekeylevers, upper and lower rail shift keylevers, and the elevatorkeylever.

A more comprehensive understanding of the 304 present invention may behad from the following description, taken in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings, wherein like reference characters representsimilar parts throughout the several views. A

Fig. l is a perspective view of a part of a perforator and counter withparts broken away showing so much of the apparatus as is necessary foran understanding of the present invention; and Figs. 2 and 3 areperspective representations of modified forms of the present invention.

Having reference to Fig. l, it is noted that most oi the parts shownhave their counterpart in the structure illustrated in the copendingapplication Serial No. 613,706, the entire perforating mechanism notbeing shown but which is, nevertheless, considered as operativelyassociated with the present invention. In Fig. 1 a plurality ofkeylevers H are pivoted on a common rod I2 and are normally upheld byindividual springs I3. These keylevers are guided in the notches of akeylever comb I4 carried on the base l5 of the perforator and counterunit. The keylevers Il extend over a number of pairs of selector bars I6included in the perforator selecting unit. Each keylever is arranged todepress one of the bars I3 of each pair of bars and through the mediumof rocker arms i1 and |8 lifts the other bar of the pair to reciprocatelongitudinally a permutation bar |9 cooperatively associated with andsubjacently disposed to each pair of bars i3, to impart correspondingmovement to the associated pivoted member 2|. The function of themembers 2|, as disclosed in the copending application, is to control theoperation of punch interference elements 22 of the perforating unit 23.The bars i6 are set in characteristic combinations, and for this purposethe bars l5 are provided with notched upper edges (not herein shown),the bars of each pair being complements; that is, the high portions ofone bar are disposed opposite the low portions of the other bar of thesame general plan..

The keylever comb i4, according to the present invention, is providedwith an integral lirame portion 24 having a window or aperture 25. Tothe rear of the portion 24 and spaced therefrom by filler pieces 26 and21 is a backing member 28 which is secured to the portion 24 by means ofscrews 29. Obviously, the fillers 26 and 21 may be made integral withthe frame portion 24, if desired. This arrangement provides a slideframe adapted to accommodate two slides 3| and 32, the slide or shield3| having a window or aperture 33 therein through which is exhibited theinformation printed on slide 32.

The slide 3| is controlled through a linkage arrangement by the lowermagazine keylever 34 and the upper magazine keylever 35. To achieve thisresult, the slide 3| is provided with a, depending arm 35 terminating atits lower extremity in a laterally disposed portion 31 adapted tocooperate with a notch 38 in the extremity of the rearwardly directedarm of a lever 39 fixed to a rock shaft 4| journaled in bearings (notshown) mounted on the under side of a plate 42 comprising one of theenclosing sides of a housing 43 having a lower enclosing side 44. Fixedto the left-hand end of rod 4| (as viewed in Fig. 1) is a rearwardlydirected lever arm 45 which terminates in a lateral portion 46 tocooperate with portion 41 of a member 48 fixed to and depending fromkeylever 34. The keylever 35 is also provided with a depending arm 49attached thereto which coacts with a laterally disposed portion 5|formed at the extremity of the forwardly extending portion of lever 39.

With this arrangement, the alternate actuaticns of keylevers 34 and 35will cause the reciprocation of slide 3| since, upon the depression ofkeylever 34, portion 41 of member 48 will coact with portion 46 of lever45 to rock the shaft 4| in a clockwise direction (as viewed in Fig. l)to cause a corresponding rotation of lever 39 which in turn will result,through arm 35i, in a downward movement of slide 3|. Conversely, thedepression of keylever 35 will cause, through the coaction of dependingmember 49 and portion 5|, the rotation of lever 39 in a counterclockwisedirection, whereupon, through arm 35, slide 3| will be moved upwardly.

The slide 3| is maintained in either its upper or lower position by adetent lever 52 carried by a bracket (not shown) mounted on plate 42.Detent 52 is provided at the extremity of its horizontal arm with a stud53 which, because of the clockwise rotation imparted to the detent 52 bya spring 54, is constantly biased into one or the other of a pair ofnotches 55 formed on the upper edge of a vertically extending portion 56of lever 39.

The slide 32 is provided with a depending arm 51 which terminates at itslower extremity in a laterally and forwardly disposed portion 58 whichis articulated to an arm 59 fixed to a rock shaft 6| journaled inbrackets (not shown) carried on the bottom side of plate 42. Fixed tothe right-hand end of rock shaft 6| (as viewed in Fig. 1) is a leverindicated generally as S2, having a rearwardly directed arm` 63terminating in a laterally disposed portion 54 which coacts with portion55 of a member 55 attached to and depending from a keylever 61, known asthe lower rail keylever 31, so called because its operation causes alower rail signal to be perforated in the tape simultaneously with theshifting of the slide 32 to the lower rail position.

Lever 62 is also provided with a forwardly extending arm '58 terminatingin a laterally disposed portion 69 which cooperates with a member 1| xedto and depending from the upper rail keylever 12, Similarly to keylever61, keylever 12, when depressed, causes an upper rail signal to beperforated in the tape and the slide 32 to be moved to its upper railposition. More specilically, upon the depression of keylever 61, lever52, through arm 66 and portions 64 and 65, will be caused to rotate in aclockwise direction (as viewed in Fig. l) to cause through arms 59 and51 the downward movement of slide 32, this position being the lower railposition; that is, the legend or inscriptions on the slide appearingthrough the window 33 of slide 3| will represent the style of type to beultimately cast from the matrices subsequently released inthelinecasting machine in response to signals corresponding to thekeylevers ii depressed following the operation of lower rail keylever51. The depression of upper rail keylever 12 results through arm 1| andportion 69 in the counterclockwise rotation of lever 62, which, througharms 59 and 51 causes the upward movement of slide 32 to its upper railposition which is that position wherein the indications appearingthrough slide 33 in either the upper or lower position of the latterwill represent the character to be cast with the matrix in its upperrail position. For example, with the position of the slides as shown inFig. 1; that is, with the slide 3| in its upward position and slide 32in its downward position, the legend appearing through the window 33indicates that the Roman or lower rail characters from the uppermagazine matrices will be cast. Now, if keylever 12 is depressed, theslide 32 will be actuated to its upward position, whereby the legend U.M. BOLD will appear through window 33, which signies that thesubsequently released matrices from the upper magazine will be set inthe upper rail position soas to cast bold face type. If, instead ofdepressing lever 12, lever 34 is depressed, slide 3| will be actuated toits lower position, whereupon the legend L. M. S. CAPS will appearthrough the window 33, which signifies that matrices from the lowermagazine will be assembled in the assembling elevator of the composingmachine when the perforated strip is used for control purposes, and thatthe matrices so released will be set in the lower rail position. Also,upon depression of the lower magazine keylever 34 and the upper railkeylever 12, the slide 3| will assume its lower position and the slide32 in its upper position, whereupon the legend L. M. ITALICS will appearthrough window 33, signifying that, upon control of the linecastingmachine by the control strip, matrices from the lower magazine will bechosen which, when set in the assembling elevator, will be positioned onthe upper rail.

Automatically controlled linecasting machines are provided with thefeature of automatically restoring the duplex rail to its lower railposition whenever the elevator is returned to its normal or homeposition preparatory to receiving a new line of matrices. To beconsistent with this feature, the keyboard device according to thepresent invention has been provided with means for restoring theindicator to the lower rail position whenever the elevator key has beendepressed preparatory to beginning the perforation of a new line ofmatter to be composed. To accomplish this result, the elevator keylever13 is provided With a depending arm 14 secured thereto which terminatesin a rearwardly disposed portion 15 which coacts with a stud 16 carriedby the arm 59. With this arrangement, the slide 32 will be actuated toits lower position Whenever the elevator keylever 13 is depressed, thatis, the depression of keylever 13 causes, through the coaction ofportion 15 of arm 14 and stud 16, the clockwise rotation of arm 59,whereupon slide 32, through its arm 51, will be actuated to its downwardor lowermost position.

The slide 32 is maintained in either its upper or lower position by adetent arrangement similar to that described in connection with slide3|. Accordingly, only that part of said arrangement represented by avertically extending portion 1|) of arm 59 is indicated in Fig. 1.

Modification In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2, the indicator consistsof two concentric cylindrical sectors 11 and 18 arranged to pivot on acommon shaft 19. The outer sector 11 has a window or aperture 8|, apointer 82, and a vertical extension 83. The inner sector 18 carriesfacilities for mounting four cards on positions 84, 85, 86, and 81, andalso is provided with a vertical exten- Y sion 88. Sector 11 may bemoved to either of two and the assembly consisting of shaft |03 and thelevers |84, |05, and |06 affixed thereto. Keylevers 89 and 9| are usedfor lower magazine and upper magazine selections respectively, and thekeylevers 98 and 99 are employed for upper rail and lower railselections respectively. Extensions 83 and 88 stop against xed stops|81, |88, and |09 and are held in their selected positions either byfriction means or by detents (not shown in Fig. 2).

Stationary plate carried on the base of the keyboard apparatus isprovided to index the position of sector 11. As illustrated in Fig. l,the combination indicator shows that matrix selections will be made fromthe upper magazine of the composing machine and will be assembled in theupper rail position of the assembly elevator which, in the particularfont being used, will cause italic characters to be cast on the slug ofmetal. If, now, the L. R. (lower rail) keylever 99 is depressed, section85 of sector 18 will be moved in line with the window 8| and theoperatcr will be informed that roman characters are being selected. Ifthe L. M. (lower magazine) keylever 89 is depressed, sector 11 will moveto its lower magazine position in which the U. R. (upper rail) keylever98 will present a bold F (bold face) type to the window 8|.

It should be noted that the depression of either of the keylevers 89 or9| with either of the keylevers 98 or 99 will result in differentrelative movements between sectors 11 and 18 to denote the differentrelative positions between the upper and lower rail positions of thematrices selected from upper and lower magazines. Of course, the featuredisclosed in connection with the embodiment shown in Fig. l, wherein theelevator key (which is also called the Return key), when depressed, actsto restore the indicator to the lower rail position, may readily beadapted to the form illustrated in Fig. 2 by connecting the elevatorkeylever (not shown) to the shaft |83 by means of a link and lever armanalogous to link |82 and arm |95, respectively, associated with thelower rail keylever 99.

The modification of the invention exemplified in Fig. 3 is provided foruse with linecasting machines having not only two main storage magazinesbut also two side or auxiliary magazines. Linecasting machines of thistype are also provided With distributing mechanism capable ofaccomplishing the simultaneous distribution of matrices to any one of amultiplicity of magazines. Conformable with this arrangement ofmagazines, an indicator is provided having a third slide 2 (Fig. 3)which is movable from left to right and vice versa or transversely ofthe movement of slides ||3 and lili, the latter being comparable toslides 3! and 32 indicated in Fig. 1. Like the indicator shown in Fig.l, the indicating device illustrated in Fig. 3 comprises a keylever comb||5 having an integral frame portion H8 provided with a window oraperture H1. The indicator is also arranged with a back member H8 whichis spaced from the portion I6 by suitable means to provide sufficientsliding space for slides H2, H3, and HB.

The slides H3 and |59 are slidable vertically through their arms H9 and52| respectively by mechanism analogous to that shown and described inconnection with Fig. l. The slide I2, however, is slidable horizontallyby means of its mechanical interconnection with the shift and unshiftmechanism disclosed in Figs. 2 and l5 of the aforementioned copendingapplication Serial No. 613,706 to which reference may be had for a morecomprehensive understanding of the details thereof. As noted in thecopending application, the shift and imshift keylevers are effective torock an extension |22 carried on a rocker member (not shown).

The extension |22 is provided at its upper extremity with a forwardlydirected portion |23 having a projection |22 which coacts with a springactuated detent member |25. Pivotally connected to portion |23 is oneend of a link |28, the other end of which is pivotally connected to arm|21 of a bell crank lever |28. The other arm 29 of bell crank |23 ispivotally articulated at itsextremity to the end of an extension I3!integral to slide I2. Thus, when the extension 22 is actuated forwardly,the bell crank |28 will be rotated counterclockwise (as viewed in Fig.3) to reciprocate the slide ||2 rightwardly to bring its aperture |32,which has a vertical dimension substantially equal to the verticaldimension of the aperture IH in the keylever comb portion H6 and ahorizontal dimension of substantially one-half that of aperture lll,into register with the right one-half of aperture H1 to enable throughaperture i3d of slide H3 the reading of the indications on the slide Hwhich refer to the style oi? type contained in the side or auxiliarymagazines. When the slide [l2 is in its left-hand position, its aperturel32 registers with the left-hand indications on slide lll to apprise theoperator of the style of type to be set from the main magazines. Theright and left-hand positions of slide l I2 may be designated as the'upper and lower case positions if the movement of the slide H2 isproduced by means of the shift and unshift keylevers, or they may bedesignated as the main magazine and side or auxiliary magazine positionsif the positions are determined by special keylevers known as mainmagazine and auxiliary magazine keylevers. It is thus manifest that withthe arrangement shown in Fig. 3, an indicator is provided for indicatingeight diierent selections, conditions, or relations.

It should be noted also that a further combination may be had byarranging to move sector 'l1 axially on shaft 79 under the influence ofthe shift and unshift keys, or by means of special keys designated asmain magazine and auxiliary or side magazine keys. In this event thesector 'I8 would necessarily be increased in Width to acoommodate asecond column of indicatory matter.

Inasmuch as many changes and modifications may be made without departingfrom the spirit and scope of the present invention, it is not intendedthat this invention be limited to the specific. language of theforegoing description nor to the details of the accompanying drawings,but to be permitted instead a latitude of construction as indicated bythe hereunto appended claims.

What is claimed is:

l. In a machine for preparing control forms for typographical machineswhich employ a plurality of magazines, a plurality of operatingelements, an indicator comprising a support with suitable indicationsthereon and a shield, reciprocable each with respect to the other, andmeans selectively cperabl-e by any one of said elements for controllingsaid indicator to establish a predetermined relation between'saidsupport and said shield according to the element operated.

2. In combination, a plurality of operating elements, an indicatorcomprising an apertured portion and an indicatory portion movable onewith respect to the other, and means operated by said elements tocontrol said indicator to establish a predetermined relation betweensaid portions according to the element operated.

3. In combination, a plurality of operating elements, an indicatorcomprising an apertured sector and an indicatory secto-r arranged innested relation and movable one with respect to the other, and meansoperable by said elements for controlling said indicator to establish apredetermined relation according to the element operated.

4. In combination, a plurality of operating elements, indicating meanscomprising an apertured slide and a cooperating indicatory slide movableone in relation to the other, and means selectively operable by saidelements for controlling said indicator to establish a predeterminedrelation between said slides according to the element operated.

5. In a machine for preparing control strips for typographical machineswhich employ a plurality of magazines, a perforating mechanism, aselector mechanism for controlling said perforating mechanism, anindicator comprising a support with suitable indications thereon and ashield, movable one in relation to the other, means to control saidindicator, and a plurality of operating elements operable to controlsimultaneously said selector mechanism and said indicator to establishin the latter a predetermined relation between said support and saidshield according to the element operated and to produce in the controlstrip a signal corresponding to` the relation established.

6. In a machine for preparing control strips for typographical machineswhich employ a plurality of magazines, a plurality of operatingelements, indicating means comprising an apertured slide and acooperating indicatory slide movable one in relation to the other, meansselectively operable by said elements for controlling said indicator toestablish a predetermined relation between said slides according to theelement operated, and means to insure the conditioning of said indicatorto a normal position preparatory to beginning the composition of a newline.

7. In combination, a plurality of operating elements, an indicatorcomprising a plurality of apertured means and indicatory means, eachmeans movable with respect to any of the other means, and mechanismoperated by said elements to control said indicator to establish apredetermined relation between said means according to the elementoperated.

8. In a machine for preparing control strips for typographical machineswhich employ a plurality of magazines, a plurality of operatingelements, an indicator comprising a pair of apertured slides and acooperating indicatory slide, each movable in relation to the others,and means operable by said elements for controlling saidindicator toestablish a predetermined relation between said slides according to theelement operated.

9. In a machine for preparing control strips for typographical machineswhich employ a plurality of magazines, a signal determining device, aselector mechanism for controlling said device, an indicator comprisingan apertured portion and an indicatory portion movable one with respectto the other, means to control said indicator, and a plurality ofoperating elements operable to control simultaneously said selectormechanism and said indicator to establish in the latter a predeterminedrelation between said portions according to the element operated and toproduce in the control strip, through the 'instrumentality of saiddevice, a signal corresponding to the relation established.

10. In a machine for preparing control strips for typographical machineswhich employ a plurality of magazines, a signal determining device, aselector mechanism for controlling said device, an indicator comprisingan apertured portion and an indicatory portion movable one with respectto the other, means to control said indicator, and means to controlsimultaneously said selector mechanism and said indicator to establishin the latter a predetermined relation between said portions accordingto the element operated to produce in the control strip, through theinstrumentality of said device, a signal corresponding to the relationestablished.

11. In combination, a plurality of operating elements, an indicatorcomprising an apertured 75 portion and an indicatory portion movable onewith respect to the other, means operated by said elements to controlsaid indicator to establish a predetermined relation between saidportions according to the element operated, and means to insure theestablishment of said indicator to a normal position preparatory tobeginning the composition of a new line.

12. In a machine for preparing control strips for typographicalmachines, a signal determining device, a selector mechanism forcontrolling said device, an indicator comprising a plurality ofapertured means, an indicatory means, each means movable with respect toany of the other means, means to control said indicator, and means tocontrol simultaneously said selector mechanism and said indicator toestablish in the latter a predetermined relation between said portionsaccording to the element operated and to produce in the control strip,through the instrumentality of said device, a signal corresponding tothe relation established.

MAURUS 'I'. GOETZ.

